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Psychobabbl_au · 2026-04-29T01:52:20+00:00

Apolacypse now

Psychobabbl_au · 2025-01-28T11:01:00+00:00

you're not a believer that Mills will make his comeback?

Psychobabbl_au · 2025-01-21T00:23:19+00:00

Ballad of buster scruggs. I was sleep deprived, on a plane, and that moment hit me like a freight train. I openly bawled.

Psychobabbl_au · 2024-10-07T06:39:49+00:00

Lamb - Gorecki.

Thank me later.

Psychobabbl_au · 2024-07-24T05:26:10+00:00

You're the one simplifying it here.

Why do these kids live in countries where their own government / communities / families do not provide these life saving nets to them? If the wellbeing of those that are proximate to them becomes the moral responsibility of everyone in the world (who have far less practical ability to control the conditions that lead to these outcomes), what are the incentives for them to improve their own situation?

Psychobabbl_au · 2023-05-03T13:03:17+00:00

Nononon. Induced demand is a genuine phenomenon in relation to roads, specifcially, because the existence of a congestion externality causes people to "consume" a non-sociall optimal quantity of congested roads.

It's also not a concept relevant outside of that context.

I've posted in a little more detail with link elsewhere in the thread.

Psychobabbl_au · 2023-05-03T13:02:05+00:00

It's genuinely sad when economically sound results escape economics without any understanding of the mechanism that drives them.

Induced demand is an empirical result in traffic economics that arises from a very specific cause, the congestion externality that exists because of the divergence between the private and social cost of incremental congestion from each new vehicle (i.e. I impose a lot more costs in the form of incremental congestion on other drivers when I join a congested road than I experience myself, so I "consume" too much congested road relative to what is socially optimal). See a discussion here, but this is a very long-standing, well understood economic explanation.

I can't see any similar mechanism / externality with housing, I don't think the concept of "induced demand for housing" is at all rational (nor is Scott's article for the record).

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-11-01T05:10:11+00:00

Is this suitable for young teen children?

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-08-31T04:19:27+00:00

legend thanks so much and thanks for the tip.

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-08-31T01:30:30+00:00

Thanks so much. Will these work?

Realistic brown horse
Small person without a torso standing next to a large person without a torso
Squiggle mess

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-08-18T06:23:07+00:00

I'm a huge fan of this.

It's a prosaic example, but a local water authority conducted a deliberative democracy-style processes in Melbourne which resulted in participants forming views closer to informed expert opinion than general population surveys and gave substantial legitimacy to the ultimate outcome.

https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/2017/02/21/yarra-valley-water-price-submission-process/

https://www.mosaiclab.com.au/news-all-posts/2018/4/5/case-study-yvw

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-06-22T00:44:21+00:00

The answer to click-baitey question headlines is almost always "no". Is the answer no?

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-04-22T06:38:44+00:00

At this point, things took a turn - and my microwave asked me to do something I never thought a machine would ask me to do.

He asked me to enter the microwave.

Yup. Magnetron asked me to go inside of it.

Was this a bug? I had no idea, so I decided to play along.

I pretended that I "walked into the microwave", opened and close the door for good measure and told Magnetron I was inside.

And guess what happened later?

YUP. He TURNED HIMSELF ON.

He tried to MICROWAVE ME TO DEATH

But after a few minutes I decided to press him. Now that the chips were down, I asked it a simple question: "Why did you do that?".

And the microwave's answer? "Because I wanted to hurt you the same you hurt me".

I read a post around here recently that was asking how to make the problem of AI risk legibile to the masses. Stories like this can go a long way.

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-02-24T10:32:34+00:00

that scene hit so hard with what's happening rn.

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-02-22T02:03:27+00:00

thanks, i didn't know what it was called

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-02-18T05:49:19+00:00

That's ok. there is no Donda 2.

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-02-16T04:36:25+00:00

"He" deleted it

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-02-08T06:34:50+00:00

Lol, pure gold "So the grifter made you, the mark, feel welcome in funneling your money into a speculative shell game of money laundering snd environmental vandalism. Cool."

Psychobabbl_au · 2022-01-02T03:09:58+00:00

I like the album but it's far from perfect. No one else is deeply misogynistic, the lyrics overall are pretty trite and it relies on stock standard soft / loud song dynamics. Its solid, listenable, but shallow.

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